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I got to spend a bit of time working on acoustic recording this weekend. I'm getting close to a mic position I'm happy with. This is a Yamaha A3M recorded with an AT2035. The mic is at the rear of the sound hole, pointed at the 12th fret, roughly 8" or so out from the guitar.

There are two parts to this. The first is Take A, a single mono recording. The second part has another take (B) recorded to double the guitar part. A is 100% left, B is 100% right.

EQ is identical throughout. There is a touch of reverb on a bus that is again identical for both parts. There are no other FX.

In addition to comparing single vs doubled parts, I EQ'd this monitoring thru speaker/room correction software (IKM ARC2) that is supposed to flatten the response as an aid to mixing. With this active, a bit of the boominess specific to my environment is removed as I hear it. So ...

In addition to comments regarding differences between the two parts, I would appreciate comments on the overall tonal balance as heard on your speakers, so please tell me what you're listening thru

Listening on some old logitech computer speakers it sounds good, the doubling does give a chorus like effect which I guess is what you are after. Listening again on my DT 770 headphones which are the best monitoring gear I have, I can tell that in the doubled part at the very end one guitar stops ringing earlier than the other.

Was the boominess at a particular frequency? I can still hear a fair amount of "body" in the recording which might be ok for solo or guitar and voice but maybe too much for a rock mix.

I find myself wanting to hear a bit more "crispness" on the guitar. I'm thinking maybe I'd tweak the high end or mid range EQ to bring those out a bit more. Also, just a small bit of close-timed delay might help. I, myself, have been experimenting with delay used as an effect on vocals. Mind you, not a "special effect" but effect in which you are not looking to draw attention to the delay but just blend it in ever so subtly to add a bit of dimension. This may work on guitar as well.

Also wondering what are you recording it into and what doubler you are using.

I'm hopeless at this sort of thing. I know what I like and most of these sound OK to me except the last (with the VX). It's fine as an effect and it could probably work well within the context of a song with other instrumentation but as an acoustic sound it's not my favourite.